Sobyanin: the updated Leningrad station served more than 6.3 million passengers

After a large-scale renovation, Leningrad Railway Station in Moscow served over 6.3 million passengers of long-distance trains and took first place in the country in terms of service quality. This was reported by the mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin. According to him, the complex combines historical heritage and modern transport solutions.

Now Leningradsky railway station is the most modern and technological in the country. It combines historical heritage, advanced technologies and high standards of Moscow transport, the head of the city said.

The results of the update were summed up on the day of the 175th anniversary of the railway communication between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The first train left the Northern capital on November 13, 1851. It carried 192 passengers, and the road to Moscow took 21 hours and 45 minutes. Before the launch of regular traffic, the journey between the cities lasted several days.

From this flight began the history of the Leningrad station - the first railway station of the capital. The building was designed by architect Konstantin Ton. For 175 years, it changed its name, received new trains and millions of travelers.

After the reconstruction, new services were created at the station. The round-the-clock information desk of Moscow transport, opened for the first time at the railway station, has already received more than 200 thousand appeals. Employees help passengers make routes, talk about train schedules and available services. On the first floor there was also a free room for families with children. There, parents can rest and take care of their babies before leaving; more than 6,400 people have used the space.

Leningrad railway station became not only a transport hub, but also a city playground for leisure. There are concerts and exhibitions, there is a free museum of the history of the station. There is a working area and a rest area with an online library.

On the anniversary date, the station was officially included in the project “New addresses of happiness” as a platform for registration of marriages. Sobyanin called it symbolic: for almost two centuries the station connected cities and people, and now new families will appear here.

The next stage in the development of railway communication between the two capitals will be the construction of a high-speed highway Moscow - St. Petersburg.

Earlier, the mayor told about the construction of the Biryulevskaya metro line. The left tunnel between ZIL and Dream Island stations has been completed. The site with a length of almost 1.5 kilometers was built from June to November 2026 with the help of the Elena complex. Work took place in difficult conditions: the route crosses a number of existing transport facilities, and in some areas the distance from the tunnel shield to the metro structures was less than a meter. To exclude damage, experts regulated the speed of penetration, controlled the extraction of soil and the supply of tamponage solution. The state of the infrastructure was monitored around the clock.

Work on the line continues. The complex "Victoria" lays the right tunnel from "ZIL" to "Dream Island", "Olga" leads the passage from "Maple Boulevard" to "Kuryanov", and "Esmina" builds a connecting branch of the Biryulevskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya lines.

Sobyanin also said that the Moscow system of payment for travel by biometrics has been operating for five years. During this time, passengers used it more than 240 million times, and the number of registered users exceeded one million. According to the mayor, a service of comparable scale and level of convenience has not yet been created in any other city in the world.